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Tuesday and Wednesday, January 30 and 31, 2018 (LaPosa South LTVA, Quartzsite, AZ)

The day started off with a spectacular sunrise...

Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the distance...

And it only got better...

It was another gorgeous, warm day today with highs reaching to 79F/26C...there were areas with high cloud but for the most part, the sun shone through.

At 9:00 Steve and Red headed over to the RC airfield while Pam and I were off to Parker to stock up at Walmart and Safeway.

Although it was a pleasant "girls" day away...not too exciting. We didn't even go out for lunch! Steve and Red had a great time at the airfield with plenty of pictures taken. If you're not into model RC airplanes, you may want to "fast-forward" past them...just a warning LOL!

Red getting assistance from a club member with an issue he was having with his electric plane...

The majority of planes are gas powered...

Steve has finally decided to join the club and ordered the Apprentice pictured below in the next 3 photos. It's a trainer with 3 different skill level settings plus a panic button for recovery if you should happen to loose control.

First crash of the day by an experienced pilot. Seems something in the area is interfering with the radio signals and he had no control over the plane. Too bad, some of these planes are very expensive.

Red prepping for a flight with one of his other planes...

And he's off!

Coming in to land after doing several circuits...

Nice landing Red!

Next up...

A female pilot inside the cockpit...

Another very experienced flyer...

...gets in the air...

...and contact with his plane is lost resulting in the second crash of the day...

His trailer is full of planes. Some of theses guys have thousands of dollars invested in the hobby...

Next up a powered glider...

The propeller folds back in flight when not in use...

When Pam and I got home, Steve helped bring in our bags of groceries and then I got to work putting them away. He returned to the laptop...where he was busy ordering his new Apprentice S 15e RC airplane. Yes, he wore me down LOL! He also had to join MAAC in Canada for insurance purposes.

Late afternoon found us sitting outside under our awning/sunshade enjoying great conversation with Jim, Red, Harry...along with a friend he worked with at Amazon, Brian...and Vicki.

I stole the next 3 drone pictures from Jim and Barb's blog (thanks, Jim!). It shows where we are all situated here on the desert...the only difference is that Red and Pam are now in the spot where Steve and Debbie were. "Us" is Jim and Barb...
View to the southeast, our rig on the lower left...

And to the southwest. So as you can see there is plenty of space between the rigs...

Shortly before 9:00 Wednesday morning, Red and Steve headed off to the RC airfield again. Now that Steve has joined the club they were going to help out at a work party this morning.

While they were gone, I got out for a walk and then cleaned up inside. They were only gone for about an hour and a half but then decided to check out an area near Rainbow Acres where there is a clear flat area that Steve said is used as another RC airfield. So off they went in Red's Rhino. On their way back a large Mule Deer buck darted by. They drove around trying to locate it again to get a picture. It finally showed itself quite a ways away, so the zoomed in cell phone picture isn't the greatest. It had a large set of antlers but they were never close enough to count the tines, and zooming in on the photo just blurred any detail.

Pam and I got together for what she calls "stitching"...she worked on her crocheting and I got started on my knitting project.

Next thing we knew it was going on 4:00...time to get ready for our "now" annual beer tasting session with Jim and Barb....Harry and Vicki and Red and Pam also joined us...

Of course, Jim and Barb's daughter, Jessica also enjoyed the variety of brews we were tasting...the kids, Dylan and Kendall did not participate LOL....

Oh...this looks good!

Red's beer tasting glass....

Steve with his beer sampling glass we got at the Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam...

Next an 805...

Kendall entertained us...she is such a cutie!

Jim did a great job bartending and explaining each beer...

Pam volunteered to drive into town to pick up pizza from Silly Al's...Harry joined her to have some beer growlers filled

Our evidence lineup. Note Kendall's sippy cup has been included but contained no beer! Not in the order of best to worst as everyone's tastes were different.

It's been a long wait for him, but he finally got one! Just hope it survives the "learning curve"! We started the beer tasting last year and plan to make it an annual event. Barb picked up quite a variety at Total Wine. Lots of fun!

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About Us

We married in 1982 and our sons, Rob and Chris were born in 1983 and 1985. In 1990 we built our dream home in North Saanich just north of Victoria BC on 1.21 acres. We both had long careers, Dianne in Human Resources and Steve as Branch Manager for a controls systems wholesaler.
Steve always felt that there were no guarantees in life as far as health and mortality went, so we planned to retire early and RV full-time.
In late 2009 we began the build process on our custom Toy Hauler truck, taking delivery in early 2010. We moved into our new Montana 5th wheel in Feb 2010, living in it for 4 months while still working. In May 2010 we purchased 2 Yamaha Grizzly 550 ATVs. We're ready!
Just shy of our 55th birthdays, on June 25, 2010 we retired and started our life as gypsies.
We prefer dry camping (boondocking), getting as far away from civilization as possible. However, our size limits us from getting into all of those remote areas. Good thing we have the ATVs to explore with.